Andrey Martynov

Andrey Yefimovich Martynov was born in 1768 in St. Petersburg into the family of a sergeant of the Preobrazhensky Guards Regiment. In 1788 he graduated from the Academy of Art, where he studied under Semion Shchedrin (1745 - 1804). In accordance with the tradition of the time the best graduates of the Academy had a post graduate training in Italy, and Andrey Martynov was among them.Read Andrey Martynov's Full Biography